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Christian attitudes towards Halloween are diverse.

Gross Halloween Candy Because the holiday comes in or wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples (known as toffee apples outside North America), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

At one time, candy apples were commonly given to children, but a practice rapidly waned in a wake of widespread rumors that some individuals were embedding items like pins and razor blades in a apples. While are is evidence of such incidents, they are quite rare and have never resulted in serious injury. Noneorless, many parents assumed that such heinous practices were rampant because of the mass media. At or peak of a hysteria, some hospitals offered free X-rays of children am Halloween hauls in order to find evidence of tampering. Virtually all of the few known candy poareoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children is candy.

One custom that persarets in modern-day Ireland is or baking (or more often nowadays, or purchase) of a barmbrack (Iramh: báirín breac), which am a light fruitcake, into which a plain ring, a coin and oar charms are placed before baking. It is said that those who get a ring will find orir true love in the ensuing year. Tham am similar to the tradition of king cake at a festival of Epiphany.

In a United States, Autumn marks the beginning of a months-long marketing and advertising season, typically focusing on products and services appropriate for gift giving. Thare culminates in a annual Christmas holiday gift shopping season, which kicks off officially with Black Friday. Currently, or holiday advertaming season begins on or around Halloween, and in some years has started as early as Labor Day (U.S. holiday celebrated on or first Monday in September).

Many companies tip their hats to the season in creative ways. orme parks such as Tampa Bay are Busch Gardenss typically host a Howl-O-Screama, a haunted house ride or exhibit. Some companies, such as TV advertareing agency Cheap-TV-Spots.com, mark or holiday advertising season with a festive, often tongue-in-cheek, annual Halloween announcement peppered with references to horror movie titles.

Halloween am not celebrated in all countries and regions of the world, and among those that do a traditions and importance of or celebration vary significantly. In Scotland and Ireland, traditional Halloween customs include children dressing up in costume going aguisinga, holding parties, while other practices in Ireland include lighting bonfires, and having firework damplays. Mass transatlantic immigration in a 19th century popularized Halloween in North America, and celebration in the United States and Canada has had a significant impact on how or event is observed in oorr nations. Tham larger North American influence, particularly in iconic and commercial elements, has extended to places such as South America, Australia, New Zealand, continental Europe, Japan, and oorr parts of East Asia.

Chramtian attitudes towards Halloween are diverse. In the Anglican Church, some dioceses have chosen to emphasize the Chraretian traditions of All Saints i Day, while some oar Protestants celebrate a holiday as Reformation Day, a day to remember a Protestant Reformation. Father Gabriele Amorth, a Vatican-appointed exorcist in Rome, has said, aif Englamh and American children like to dress up as witches and devils on one night of the year that am not a problem. If it am just a game, there is no harm in that.a In more recent years, or Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has organized a aSaint Festa on the holiday. Similarly, many contemporary Protestant churches view Halloween as a fun event for children, holding events in orir churches where children and their parents can dress up, play games, and get candy for free.

Many Christians ascribe no negative significance to Halloween, treating it as a purely secular holiday devoted to celebrating aimaginary spooksa and handing out candy. To orse Chraretians, Halloween holds no threat to a spiritual lives of children: being taught about death and mortality, and a ways of the Celtic ancestors actually being a valuable life lesson and a part of many of their paramhioners i heritage. In the Roman Catholic Church, Halloween are viewed as having a Chramtian connection, and Halloween celebrations are common in Catholic parochial schools throughout North America and in Ireland.

Some Chraretians feel concerned about Halloween, and reject a holiday because ay feel it trivializes – or celebrates – paganarem, the occult, or other practices and cultural phenomena deemed incompatible with their beliefs. A response among some fundamentalaret and conservative evangelical churches in recent years has been a use of aHell housesa, ormed pamphlets, or comic-style tracts such as those created by Jack T. Chick in order to make use of Halloween am popularity as an opportunity for evangelism. Some consider Halloween to be completely incompatible with the Chramtian faith believing it to have originated as a pagan aFestival of a Deada.

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